Comments on: Will drones end privacy as we know it?http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/
The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast networkTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:39:35 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3By: Denver Bobhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6248347
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:25:32 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6248347When I lived in Hoboken, back in the day, there were eyes everywhere, be it on the street or in the windows. You could go anywhere anytime, and it was OK. I was very glad for it.

Judge Napolitano whinges about cameras so on an so forth. Why be paranoid, when that was the fact of life forever, most places. Everyone knew everyone’s business.

As a note, this notes, and all like will live forever and ever, you might think about that when you post your photos.

]]>By: FineasFinnhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6247563
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:40:01 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6247563Not as long as I can still get 3″ high brass #6 shot.
]]>By: Dino Vhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6247096
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:29:57 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6247096I actually welcome my local law enforcement sending a drone to hover over my house and spy with or without a warrant…I need a test subject for my new home made EMP device. Measures and counter-measures. I declare WAR on robots before they become self aware and declare war on me. Robots are open season in my book.
]]>By: bitsyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6245645
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:11:35 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6245645

Remember: I fly my own private “drone” for the joy of flying. I paid for it out of my own pocket and I take threats of having it shot down rather seriously.

Talking seriously about randomly shooting down drones is akin to talking seriously about randomly keying cars. Either one is destruction of someone’s property.

Stuff like this is way more vulnerable. Yeah they’ll be a lot harder to spot, but everything from duck guns to directed EMP to even an *ahem* appropriately-equipped, commercially available RC helicopter could knock them down.

I would venture that you might even be able to hit these things with a homemade rail gun, which are not all that hard to build. What’s their flight ceiling?

]]>By: Old Country Boyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6245306
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:53:49 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6245306An 8, 10, or 12 gauge goose gun will do it. Actually most any semi-automatic rifle will do it. Just point ahead of the drone and empty the magazine. Keep doing this and you will eventually get it.

I know that most of you firearms “authorities” have never heard of the goose gun, as is expected.

]]>By: AnotherOpinionhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6245028
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:47:15 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6245028Betweeen trafic stop camera proliferation, speed cameras, trafic congestion cameras, and the TSA KGB, americans are accepting more and more invasions of privacy and 4th ammendment violations by default and apathy. Throw in Drunk Driving traffic stops too. Every one of these has a ‘good’ purpose but…
]]>By: Dr. ZhivBlagohttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6244901
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:11:37 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6244901Of course once Romney’s elected there will be no more drones flying around the U.S. of A.
]]>By: roy_battyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/will-drones-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6244597
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:09:28 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=217717#comment-6244597

Talking seriously about randomly shooting down drones is akin to talking seriously about randomly keying cars. Either one is destruction of someone’s property.

wearyman on September 11, 2012 at 3:39 PM

If you happen to be “randomly” flying it over someone’s property you takes your chances that it might “randomly” get shot down I guess, hmmmm?

Remember: I fly my own private “drone” for the joy of flying. I paid for it out of my own pocket and I take threats of having it shot down rather seriously.

Good. Then as a techno-geek, make note of this:The effective range of a shotgun blast is in the neighborhood of 100 feet.
If you are flying over people’s homes, backyards, swing sets, swimming pools etc at a height under 100 feet with a camera you are engaging in an invasion of privacy.
Not to mention endangering others with the potential crash of your RC plane.
Defensive destruction of your toy is a reasonable response to that.
So get your ‘joy of flying’ away from private homes.

BTW – I suspect you already do that. But your reaction to the shotgun reference was outside the lines.

You ARE aware that randomly firing a gun up into the air is illegal, right? And that you do NOT own the airspace over your house and that ANYONE has the right to fly ANY aircraft over your house, no need of a warrant, right?

Because if you are, those are remarkably irresponsible things you are saying.

(This is my old plane, which I recently crashed during a high speed low altitude maneuver. I have since replaced it with a similar model.)

Frankly, I think most of the privacy stuff is overblown. All but the most high-tech military drones have little more than a 760P camera on them. The camera you see on my plane is a 480 line NTSC CCD camera. VERY low rez. Good for piloting and seeing the pretty view, but not so great in the detail department. Also, as I recently discovered, getting low enough to make out detail with these kinds of cameras means that you risk a crash.

I am a member of a growing international community of private FPV pilots who fly our “drones” (I keep using quotes because I really dislike the term “drone” and the emotional connotations it brings with it.) purely for the joy of flying. It’s hard to explain the experience of flying a model plane from the perspective of the pilots seat, without leaving the ground.

The below video was not my creation, but was the creation of a member of the FPV flying community. It is filmed entirely from a home-made FPV airplane (or “Drone”) and does a good job of capturing the emotional aspect of FPV.

I think it is important for us as Americans to ensure that the skies are always open and free for private citizens to fly in, and not closed off for only moneyed and big government interests.

Right now things are open. However if the big money players have their way, private citizens will be restricted to very tiny areas and the sky will be closed to us. This is wrong and un-American. We should support private “drone” pilots and all work towards allowing the skies to be open and free for anyone who wants to fly in them.